The North West province's health infrastructure development programme continues to gain momentum. Vryburg hospital and Moses Kotane hospital in Rustenburg are complete and will make available over 320 hospital beds in the province and 215 more beds will soon be available in Madibeng.
Delivering the budget speech of Department of Health and Social Development 2010/11, MEC Rebecca Kasienyane said the department is currently constructing Bapong and Tlhabane Community Health Centres which will be completed towards the end of the second quarter.
"We will be starting Tshepong MDR phase two, three clinics (Bethanie, Buxton and Tweelingspan) and Lekgopung Community Health Centre. We will also start with the refurbishment of Bophelong Psychiatric and General de la Rey hospitals in this financial year," she said.
The department has also completed Tshepong multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensive drug resistant (XDR) units, seven clinics, JB Mark Community Health Centre, Letlhabile Community Health Centre, Tshepong Oncology unit and the Vryburg hospital. The Job Shimankane Tabane hospital's Accident and Emergency unit was also refurbished to accommodate more beds.
"In order to improve access to mental health services, two more mental health establishments will be designated in 2010/11, one in Vryburg and the other in Moses Kotane hospitals," she said.
Kasienyane highlighted that the department will continue to engage stakeholders at various structures at the local level such as the provincial health council, district health councils, governance structures, hospital boards, community health forums and clinic committees to address concerns raised at the provincial Consultative Health Forum so that when the forum converge in November 2010 "we are able to report on achievements of our collective effort to improve health services."
Enquiries:
Tebogo Lekgethwane
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E-mail: tlekgethwane@nwpg.gov.za
Ngwako J Motsieng
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